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The impact made by UK Academic Computer Science ResearchFri, 25 Sep 2015 09:34:52 +0000en-GBhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10University of Hertfordshire – Robot-assisted play therapy for autistic childrenhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/kaspar/
Fri, 22 May 2015 11:41:50 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=20Both parents and teachers agree: Eden has certainly opened up since she met her new friend. It’s 2011, and the four-year-old is growing up with autism. In the past, she would shy away from contact, and shrink when other girls held her hand. “Affection always used to be on her terms”, said her mother Claire. […]]]>University of Brighton – Dictionary Productionhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/dictionary-publishers/
Fri, 22 May 2015 11:35:26 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=33Language changes all the time, which makes the job of a dictionary particularly tricky. Keeping track of new meanings and new words is a huge task for a human, which is why many major dictionary makers have switched to a computer system built on research undertaken at the University of Brighton. The Sketch Engine is […]]]>University of York – Real time vehicle controlhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/on-board-systems/
Fri, 22 May 2015 10:30:25 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=35Imagine you’re in your car. You approach the traffic lights, and put your foot on the brake. At this point, your brake lights go on and you slow to a stop. But there’s a lot more going on than that. Pressing the brake closes a switch, which is detected by an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). […]]]>Cambridge University – Payment systemshttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/payment-systems/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/payment-systems/#respondFri, 22 May 2015 09:00:43 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=37One day in Barcelona, a British sailor splashed out on the most expensive round of drinks of his life – without even knowing it. It started off fairly innocuously, as he wandered into a bar and bought a round for 34 euros using his bank card. Shortly afterwards, 3,400 euros left his account. An hour […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/payment-systems/feed/0Birmingham City University – Vehicle crash test analysishttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/crash-testing-vehicles/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/crash-testing-vehicles/#respondFri, 22 May 2015 08:30:09 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=39How long does it take to analyse a crash that only lasts a quarter of a second? Thanks to technology developed by Birmingham City University, it’s a process that’s much shorter than it used to be. Back in the mid-nineties -when it was known as the University of Central England – the university’s Digital Media […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/crash-testing-vehicles/feed/0Manchester Metropolitan University – Evaluating health technology systemshttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/it-systems-in-healthcare/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/it-systems-in-healthcare/#respondFri, 22 May 2015 08:00:41 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=41Switching to electronic health records can be extremely beneficial. With electronic records, clinicians can provide accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about patients at the point of care. They can share electronic information with other health professionals. They can diagnose patients more effectively, reduce medical errors and provide safer care. However, back in 2000, the NHS was […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/it-systems-in-healthcare/feed/0University of Manchester – Pricinghttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/company-pricing/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/company-pricing/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 22:00:06 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=43What is the right price for a product? For many years, pricing wasn’t exactly a scientific process. Businesses would weigh up the cost of parts and labour, the demand, and what the competition was doing. Prices changed every day, and there wasn’t really a very good way to reliably compute the best amount to charge, […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/company-pricing/feed/0Imperial College London – Clinical image analysishttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/spot-the-difference/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/spot-the-difference/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 21:30:57 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=45These days, it is reasonably commonplace for doctors to use scans to assess a person’s health. The clinician will review an image, looking for changes to previous scans or areas that may be anatomically abnormal. This is how they discover if a person has sustained injury or developed an illness that needs treatment. Comparing two […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/spot-the-difference/feed/0University College London – 3D Body Scanninghttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/3d-scanning-process/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/3d-scanning-process/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 21:00:02 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=48Did you ever get the feeling that your clothes didn’t quite fit like they should? Using 3D human body measurement, researchers have been working on a way to make the latest styles just that little bit more comfortable. “In the past, companies used to measure clothing sizes using fit models and tape measures”, said UCL’s […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/3d-scanning-process/feed/0University of East Anglia – Avatars for Visual Communicationhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/translating-speech/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/translating-speech/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 20:30:46 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=50Communication isn’t just about words. After all, “Good job” can be transformed from a compliment to an insult with a twist of the voice. Every day, we use our tone, our hands, our faces and our body language to add to what we say, and even to alter its meaning. It’s the same for sign […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/translating-speech/feed/0Newcastle University – Drug Discoveryhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/e-thereputics/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/e-thereputics/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 20:00:22 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=52Drug discovery is getting harder. It is no secret that research and development spending by pharmaceutical companies has become less productive in recent decades. The Office of Health Economics estimates the average cost of developing a drug at £1.2bn. It can take around 10 to 15 years to reach the market. Many drugs fail clinical […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/e-thereputics/feed/0Kingston University – Video Image People Trackinghttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/cctv-systems/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/cctv-systems/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 19:30:57 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=54While some say that CCTV “watches” us, in truth it’s sometimes just staring at a point. If someone or something happens to move into that frame, it can be recorded and viewed. But what if you want something a little more intelligent and reactive? In 2012, a prototype created by Ipsotek, a tech company in […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/cctv-systems/feed/0University of Glasgow – Communication standardshttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/communications/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/communications/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 19:00:51 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=56Think about the many different ways in which you communicate. Now remove the ones that weren’t available to you 20 years ago. Developments in communications have emerged at a breakneck pace over the last decade or two. We can now have international video conversations on our desktops and mobiles. And that’s not all: Our new […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/communications/feed/0De Montfort University – Assembler Program Transformationhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/assembler/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/assembler/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 18:30:55 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=58You may not realise it, but at some point in your day you may have interacted with a system that uses Assembler code – a low-level programming language specific to a particular computer architecture. Assembler was widely adopted by large companies who needed to manage complex mainframes, from banks to government agencies. Of course, time […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/assembler/feed/0University of Sheffield – Autonomous Weapons Debatehttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/killer-robots/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/killer-robots/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 18:00:32 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=60What should we do about killer robots? This isn’t a debate to be shelved until we reach some distant sci-fi future. As we delegate more and more tasks to robots, it’s time to ask ourselves: Are we comfortable with giving them the power to decide when to kill? In April 2015, a multilateral meeting was […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/killer-robots/feed/0Aberystwyth University – Vehicle Electrics Designhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/teaching-robots/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/teaching-robots/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 17:30:28 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=62Things go wrong. It’s a fact of life, and it’s why testing matters. And when you’ve got something as complicated as a modern car, it’s crucial to think carefully about how to minimise the effect when failures happen. For many years, the process of checking through a car’s electrical circuit was done by hand, by […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/teaching-robots/feed/0University of Leeds – Transport Crew Schedulinghttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/tracsis/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/tracsis/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 17:00:12 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=64A successful business called Tracsis has spent the last few years helping bus and rail firms to construct their crew timetables effectively, saving them over £230 million between 2008 and 2013. Its software is now being used by 70% of the train companies currently operating in the UK, as well as the UK’s largest bus […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/tracsis/feed/0University of Dundee – SpaceWire Spacecraft Networkshttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/spacecraft/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/spacecraft/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 16:30:06 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=66Almost a hundred satellites, probes and other spacecraft are launched each year. They are dispatched to monitor the Earth, explore other planets in our solar system, study the wider universe, and provide commercial communication services. Most spacecraft are unmanned, and need a reliable and effective way to handle data, store it, process it and move […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/spacecraft/feed/0City University London – Complex Data Visualisationhttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/data/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/data/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 16:00:51 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=68Former Hewlett-Packard president Carly Fiorina once said that “the goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight”. Humans have used visual aids such as charts and maps to understand and interpret information for generations. As the amount of data we can collect increases, how do we visualise it in a understandable way […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/data/feed/0University of Southampton – Web Sciencehttp://cs-academic-impact.uk/the-web/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/the-web/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 15:30:37 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=70“Why does the Web matter?”, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt asked a Royal Society audience in 2013. “Because it’s us.” It may have been invented and shaped by British scientists, but the Web is no longer just a feat of engineering. It has been described as “the nervous system of the 21st Century” and is a […]]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/the-web/feed/0Appendix – Impact Case Studies submitted to Computer Science and Informatics sub panel 11http://cs-academic-impact.uk/appendix-impact-case-studies-submitted-to-computer-science-and-informatics-sub-panel-11/
http://cs-academic-impact.uk/appendix-impact-case-studies-submitted-to-computer-science-and-informatics-sub-panel-11/#respondThu, 21 May 2015 15:00:16 +0000http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/impact/?p=72]]>http://cs-academic-impact.uk/appendix-impact-case-studies-submitted-to-computer-science-and-informatics-sub-panel-11/feed/0